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by Patty Hite Writing was easy for me. My mother encouraged me to write. When I was a young child, I remember shopping with her, looking for perfect pieces of stationary. Money was tight so I cherished each piece. I cut up used birthday and holiday cards to make my own books to write in. […]

by Libbe HaLevy My abuse began when I was very young, pre-verbal. I repressed my earliest abuse in total amnesia, not even suspecting anything had happened. But from about age three, I became obsessed with words, language, meaning. Even before I knew how to put letters and words on paper, my imagination took situations around […]

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A child raised in a healthy family is equipped to confidently live without them; the adult child from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life without them. The devaluing messages of control and manipulation create dependency so those who most need to leave are the least equipped to do so.— Christina Enevoldsen